http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177789
Although most of the recent talk regarding flotillas has revolved around ships sailing toward Gaza, at least two plans have emerged for “reverse flotillas” – from Israel toward Turkey – to highlight what organizers have labeled the Turks’ “shameless hypocrisy” in their criticisms of the Jewish state.
The most ambitious of the two plans has been devised by members of Israel’s National Student Union, who this week announced their intention to set sail toward Turkey, in an effort to bring humanitarian aid to the “oppressed people of Turkish Kurdistan” and to members of the “Turkish Armenian minority.”
…The second phase of the National Student Union members’ flotilla plan would be the more ambitious journey to Turkey, though Torporovsky admitted they were hard-pressed when it came to funding it.
“We need three things to pull this part off,” he said.
“Money, logistical support and balls – and we’ve got the last two things covered.
“But it’s here that we really get into the shameless hypocrisy of the Turks, because while they criticize us day and night, they are oppressing the Kurds and silencing the world when it comes to recognition of the Armenian Genocide.”
Heh.
It’s not exactly what I suggested here in the comments on June 3rd, but it’s close.
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Much laughter on this end. Thank you Scott. And thank you Israel 🙂
Although it’s not discussed much, Israel supports the Kurds in northwestern Iraq, while Turkey does air strikes on them in Northeastern Iraq.
So why is Turkey pissed off at the Kurds?
Because the Kurds consider a good-sized chunk of Turkey to be actually Kurdistan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan
And the Greeks consider it Constantinople, not Istanbul. Clearly it’s occupied territory, and the Turks need to go back home to Germany or Poland or wherever.
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doodoodoo…
The whole world used to belong to somebody else. And like it or not, war has been a time-tested and legally accepted way of changing property ownership.
Sooner or later we’re going to see that hypothesis tested, I expect.
Jim